Chess videos for fun and for learning. Check out the Chess Basics playlist for videos that cover "things that every chess player ought to know". There are also rapid and blitz chess videos, and several other video series about chess (and even some about Shogi!). Check out my Playlists page to see all of the series. I have a second channel, "Jim Plays Go", which is a good place to start if you'd like to learn Go. I also play blitz chess and Go live on twitch, my handle there is "JimsChess".
I have a playlist called "Chess Basics" ( ru-vid.com/group/PLPaM3qJ0ieXsZkPDAwkiT4jtV5MWGQXEI ), for people who already know how to play and are looking to improve. So I would start there. After that, I can recommend the playlist "The Middlegame in Chess" ( ru-vid.com/group/PLPaM3qJ0ieXtElQbC5glNh2J6QRfxC45b ).
Very nice instructive endgames in the first 2 games. And nice combo in the third. At 37:00 you could have deflected away the defence of d pawn with Bxe7
41:20 If black plays intermezzo Rxe4 instead of taking back on c4, white has its own intermezzo with Bxf7+. And if Kxf7 then probably Qa7+ and black can probably resign.
Hey Jim, ur opponent in the second game blundered his rook on move 4, remember that whenever u play the blumenfeld, B3 by white is a fatal opening mistake that is answered by black NxD5, and when white recaptures ur knight, QF6. And White immediately loses. I often see ur opponents do those kind of moves that u don't punish, u can try learning more on the blumenfeld so u can spot those opportunities more easily, and actually win much quicker.
16:58 You could not defend the c6 pawn but probably Nf7 blocking was ok, you have both king and rook defending the knight, so unlikely that the queen gets overloaded.
7:15 No good in this text... I like Bxf4 heading for Ne6+ next. 16:56 Bxc6 .... I'll try this position against the Stockfish, I like both bishops blocked Very nice position for an analysis Jim, I think I follow your channel since 2007 more or less Nice show ☺
Not to split hairs, but Bronstein didn't lose the 1951 match to Botvinnik. It was a 12-12 tie. As a result of a tie Botvinnik kept his title, but he did not beat Bronstein in the match.
3:03: actualy your tactical radar is right here. I just made a couple of puzzles out of this game. And Be3 is a blunder because of exactly Nxe5. White cant take night with Nxe5 not because of Qxe5, but because of Qxg2#. I did not see this my self but by analysing your game with comp analysis :) anyway. Ba2 witch you played was a must find when you played Be3. So you did find the right move, just a little late. Tho that tactic was deep, so your opponent did not see it either :) 7:53: you can take the knight with queen instead of pawn, since it does not have any guardian ;) The knight needs some kind of guard for that discovery to be efficient. your queen is attacked yes, and you did right to move it, its just that it did have a better square ;)
Yep Nxd5 dont work for white, but black has to find the idea of Qa5+ and using that queen check delayed as you did in your variation. One has to stop a bit for calculate it 😊 well spotted.
13:52 Good you did not play Be6 here, i think white has pawn fork with d5, dont know if there is a way out of that. 17:24. Very nice idea with attacking the knight here. For a moment i thought they got you wi5h remove the defender and Nxf5. But it was you who got them with that nice discovery. Easy to miss.
3:26 Free queen alert ;) 5:06. Thats a nice serial fork. i like to call it that. or a situational fork. basicaly you forking the undefended pawn and the forking square. if i may i use that in a puzzle, sine i have a small group. its a bit rare tactics so. its a nice example for explaining this kind double layer forks.
17:27 Nc4: Such a nice move to get out of the pin. 17:38 Taking the rook was probably stronger that taking bishop, although it come with a check and for thatvits more temp5ing and apealing. At 18:20 you had a nice little fork that wouldmake your opponent resign i guess. Not that it mattered😊. ahh yo spotted it after.
Please forgive my question if it's a dumb one but I'm a self taught noob. Here 2:30 you've drawn a square which is 5 x 5 little squares, starting from the position where the pawn would end. But you could also have drawn a square of 4 x 4 !? isn't it ? It would still be a square and yet it would change the end result. So how do we know what would be the proper size of the square ?
Given the curious play by Jim's highly rated opponent in the first game, and the circumstance that Jim has already beaten him 4, now 5 times, I wonder if some players on lichess aren't in fact bots! I wouldn't be surprised if I heard that chess sites were trying to increase human engagement by using secretive, manipulative and underhand methods. Presumably on lichess the data gathered can't be monetised directly, but it can presumably come in handy elsewhere, or be sold to the highest bidder. But then I haven't looked into who exactly is funding lichess, nor do I ever wish to. Just a thought.
30:04 Nf5: that must be a blunder i guess. When you pin a piece but the piece can be taken once (by their queen) and you have to take back with the piece that is maintaining the pin, you are unpinning.. hence you just loose a knight. Said in another way, your piece is attacked 2 times and defended only once. The secound time defence is depended on the pin tactics. But you cant take back once and maintain the pin at the same time. I call that pin depenecy. The defence is dependent on maintaining the pin. This is one of many ways pins can fail when the pinned piece is attacked. Another similar way is with descovery.
4:33 I am quite sure u had g4 in a cuople of moves here. Not shure how black can defend the knight and the queen at same time. Discovery check is powerfull.
